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While Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig and Jean Kirkpatrick deal with the problems of the world is New York or Washington more than 1000 college students form throughout the United States will imitate them and their colleagues from other nations this afternoon at the Science Center as part of the four-day Harvard National Model United Nations...
...stir up a paranoic fear that Russians and their Cuban emissaries were making trouble in our back-yard. The more than $100 million in aid and 49 military advisers it dispatched then aroused indignation from foreign leaders and countless Americans, all reproaching the team of Reagan, Hang and Kirkpatrick for ignoring the all-too-apparent brutality of the Salvadoran armed militia...
...reputation as a workaholic. Still, diplomats welcome his familiarity with the international organization's long and often byzantine corridors. "He is a very good diplomat who knows the U.N. from the inside," says Urquhart. Even though Sadruddin was the first choice of the U.S. delegation, Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick described Pérez as a "strong candidate" who had "shown imagination in problem solving." She added: "I am delighted to have a Secretary-General from a state which is a neighbor and with which we feel very close and friendly...
Perfect because the right has staked out an indefensible ground, because the forces of respectability, order and capital look sillier than usual. Jeane Kirkpatrick, current ambassador to the United Nations, began to outline the current ideological position of the right in her 1979 Commentary article, which included these lines: "The relative lack of concern of rich comfortable rulers for the poverty, ignorance, and disease of 'their' people is likely to be interpreted by Americans as moral dereliction pure and simple...Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society...
...possibility of Salim's election is opposed by the U.S., which has vetoed him five times when he too attained the nine votes necessary for the job. (Council members could, and did, vote for both candidates.) The U.S. position, put by Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, is that any Secretary-General "who would further politicize [the organization] would mean the kiss of death." The U.S. would vote against Salim again if the council decides to hold another round of balloting with him as the sole candidate...